inheriting the revolution a new venezuelan leader will be chosen next month questions mount type of foreign influence in the oil rich nation. of its own time president hugo chavez. all fall out rations in the gulf egypt reports confirmed death sentences for participants in last year's deadly football riots the growing on the rest concerns of military rule in the country. tens of thousands gather across japan to show their opposition to nuclear energy two year anniversary of the group ashima nuclear disaster upon us. on the bolshoi is facing twelve years behind bars plotting an attack which many of his boss goes behind the scenes to examine the dark side of the spotlight.

you're watching our weekly news review with me kerry. venezuela has set a date to pick a successor to the late president hugo chavez who died from a heart attack following a two year battle with cancer on tuesday election will take place on april fourteenth and will determine whether his revolution of vision will live on is the feelin the roughly video agency is closely watching the political situation in caracas. president nicolas maduro sworn in as the president and so elections take place some voices in the opposition notably the man who is the main opposition m.p. . who have called the swearing in. hugo chavez personally appointed. the man that he wanted to succeed him and of course hugo chavez the late

president has immense popularity and by the way the russian f.m. has said that he hopes that. continues to deepen the ties between russia. and he's also said that he hopes that russia will respect the outcome of venezuela and elections and he hopes that all countries around the world again referring to the fact that there have been many outside powers who would like to see and. among many condolences coming from inside venezuela but there was a very good statement coming from chavez's last election and. he said he was mourning this loss and that he had never been his enemy but his rival i think is a very respectful attitude and i hope in the full of an election battle mourning the loss of venezuela and its friends including russia we have to look forward and i hope chavez's heritage will only help to deepen our partnership

a majority in venezuela want to shop with his policies to continue. the choice of the venezuelan people. for the country's elections with them as well as you say and they'll be no attempts to influence their choice. amongst the crowds you know we've been there quite a lot over the last few days and one of the most popular chance is with chavez and i thought other people are saying when he was sworn in in the national assembly that was very emotional crowd support for him and he announced that he has to continue the revolution he was very emotional he was in tears as he took the presidential sash and he said that the sash that he was taking belonged to. well lead is thousands of venezuelan mourners gathered to pay their respects to the commandante on friday while there was grief on the streets of caracas there was a different tone emerging from washington is going to chicken reports. communities of people throughout latin america are mourning the death of. the

venezuelan leader enjoyed tremendous popular support in his country as well as the whole region he won four presidential elections and had ruled venezuela for fourteen years so you see this liberation process not only on the venezuelan people but also of all the latin american peoples must continue. chavis allowed us to restore faith in latin america region so that a profound transformation in the region can be carried out this will be only guardian of the empire will no doubt be happy and celebrating the new empire is the word a host of south american leaders and used to refer to the united states in washington president obama extended his sympathy to the chavez family and heralded quote a new chapter in the history of latin america but the u.s. congress was not as restrained in their reaction to the death of the venezuelan leader the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee had this to say his death then. a u.s. leftist leaders in south america good riddance to this dictator in the media

a slew of hundreds embarked on a search for new opportunities that might now be available for the u.s. in venezuela. so what does this mean now for the united states and all that oil in that country venezuela is a place of enormous opportunity it has by surveys perhaps the largest reserves of oil in the world from the u.s. point of view this has enormous potential implications because venezuela that moves away from chavez is foreign policy means a venezuela that's less welcoming to iran less friendly to russia less friendly to castro's cuba less friendly to leftwing regimes around the hemisphere which is financed in their campaigns and and other aspects but before america jumps at the chance to explore those new opportunities it might be useful to look back at what washington's previous efforts led to it. what the u.s. now calls leftist populist governments in latin america came to power partly in

reaction to decades of the us recklessly meddling in the affairs of the region for years washington had seen many of those countries as its outposts after chavez was elected in one thousand nine hundred nine a host of other leaders in latin america followed his example to varying extents including but not limited to ever morales in bolivia rafael correa in ecuador and then a lot in nicaragua charges may not have been as hardened in his views against washington if not for allegations of the tacit support of the bush administration in the coup against him in two thousand and two he met with bill clinton a couple times and they got along just fine it was really only with george bush then when things really were turned sour and especially after the coup attempt within forty eight hours of the start of the cooled with the help of the military and vast popular support chavis returned to power by during their short period when he was deposed some in the u.s.

hurried to celebrate the new york times for example ran this article venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by would be dictator caracas name provides fifteen percent of american oil imports and with signs of policies could provide more years after the clean chalice expressed his anger at the bush administration in a variety of fiery metaphors i did it to one of the other the devil came here yesterday . and it still smells of sulfur here george w. bush has long left office but suspicion and mistrust remain some argue if during these challenging times black america washington continues to deal with the region using the same old tactics the hostility could be playing in washington i'm kind of shaken. and washington maybe hope. the death of its most vocal critic in latin america will result in an increase of its influence vested in the journalist but i

ask obama says the u.s. will struggle to win over the ban is one population in fact obama's message was a bit ridiculous you know he said that that we're going to stand as united with different as well and people what kind of people doesn't mean doesn't mean that the people who elected and reelected chavez in that search scene out of fourteen democratic elections or does he mean he's going to go to new york and miami to trade martinis endemol nice job isn't a job used as evil danger strawman this is ridiculous the most important thing in my opinion chavez terms of a political leader he was always that referring to an international revolutionary tradition from outside. she was like a nailed fix of jewel for the more they're geopolitics i think their thing now is perfect because it was almost old iraq. and the saying is why this is the one who

says you know chavez the even foster. growth especially in the us first of all venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world so the united states and european union they can say oh do you need this wall forcing all you need just love to those ghastly petrol monarchies in the persian gulf but even as well as the leader of an israel of this sided to use the oil wells the benefit of the lower classes of it as well this is something unheard of in the persian gulf. another verdict sparking another riot in egypt saturday's court ruling to uphold twenty one death sentences over the portside stadium killings there to a further round of violent clashes the death penalties were for last year's deadly football riots during a match between cairo and portside based clubs another five life terms were also

handed down the announcement sparking outcry both cities three people died in the ensuing clashes in the capital where angry crowds torched all federation buildings authorities had already been struggling to maintain security force on it so a week of deadly violence leading up to the verdict the army has taken over security in the city with at least seven people now reported killed bill truly is following developments for r.t. . ford so i got to the security headquarters is a powerful reminder of the past five days of bloody clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in a bid to quell on rest a day ahead of the contentious verdict on last february's football riots the government removed the police and put the city security in the hands of the army activists here say a military takeover will only antagonize the situation and is an example of president mohamed morsi ignoring their demands this is. the government just

forgotten our main needs the rights of the people and those who have been killed in port so you do is not going to be. all of the police but it won't help us at all the ports are you dog misters are supposed to be in the street and well taken care of the country that's what we asked for with the police leaving there will be chaos now the people will have to secure the city themselves tension between protesters and the police has been high since last year's riots and when the minute she replaced them on the city's streets there was an initial optimism but that all changed off the court's decision the atmosphere changed on saturday when the verdict confirmed that twenty one people will face the death penalty and a further five or seven my sentences residents here say that the army will not protect them as the local authorities bowed to pressure from the capital that's a funeral for protesters killed during the recent clashes and the spicy sound of the green eagles culture is saeed's football fan club says the police used

excessive force against local demonstrators treating them worse make counterparts in cairo he believes the death sentences are further proof the city is being targeted toward the side has been persecuted for the last thirty years and president mohamed morsi is keeping the status quo created by the last regime and the president wants to wrong the people of portside and instead satisfy the cairo old tribes who are widespread across the country now there is a risk of everyone being racist towards portside aid the military for their part to maintain they are protective peaceful force and that portside protesters have not been singled out they say police are merely responding to the level of violence from those attacking key government buildings meanwhile on the banks of the suez canal protesters burn tires to prevent boats from ducking saying they will escalate acts of civil disobedience and till there is a fair trial with further violence on the horizon this could be the toughest

challenge yet for morsi and his military true for r t. well that is also monitoring the situation in egypt on twitter you can follow the latest details of what's happening on the ground there. two senior police officials also receive fifteen year sentences in that latest ruling while seven others walk free and it's that which caused much of the public outcry political activists are right now says some interior ministry officials are the real troublemakers the results are definitely not satisfactory not just for the football fans the ultras but for the entire nation seventy eight young people got killed and yet two of the ministry of interior officials are the ones on trial president morsi had a couple of months ago appointed a fact finding committee that implicates fifty six other members of the ministry of interior this report was not taken into consideration at court and only two of

those officials were scapegoats hence the issue escalates on the streets more because this is nothing but a political fiasco rather than. a real court to see to read the people's wants is a fair trial and those who are you know implicated not those who actually killed the people with their own hands but those who were behind them supporting them financing them and giving them the plan those are the two murders because they continue to be on the streets in key. places such as the ministry of interior the national security and some of them are in the intelligence community defensive needs to take very severe measures very radical measures in cleansing the state institutions of the loyalists to the mubarak's he's not being doing so on the country he's promoted some of them he's trying to co-opt them and it's not working

and it's only blowing in his face and he needs to present the real guarantees for the political process to resume fairly. well much more ahead including the story of the bolshoi theatre ballet soloist in custody for planning an attack on his boss which he claims is move on an unexpected . coming up or cannot into his head to the polls to vote on whether to remain a british troops on a tree in argentina viewing it as a moon was published or to stop going to the opinion of the u.k. and later in the program. and coming off the mark tens of thousands are protesting japan's use of nuclear power two year anniversary of machine with nuclear disaster of the break we examine why the country's reluctant to choose a different energy source. but.

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i. welcome back you're watching r.t. . japan is marking the two year anniversary of one of the darkest days in its history it was march twenty seventh when an earthquake and tsunami triggered the because nuclear disaster the country's continued use of nuclear power has been a cause of discontent among many in japan well tens of thousands of protesters gathered across the country to march against me on sunday the prime minister shinzo our big considering reactivating some react as if deadly tidal wave and tremors killed more than fifteen thousand people or the new release of radioactive materials nuclear security experts matthew mccaskey says japan has been backed into a corner due to overreliance on energy imports. the comes from the liberal democratic party that for many years has had a very close relationship with nuclear energy but also one has to remember that

japan outposts a barrier moment it's a very bad position when it comes to its economy and its dependency on fossil fuels from overseas there's as many as much as about eighty percent of it that is imported energy being imported into dependency on oil from overseas is certainly a very very dangerous game. we can just have a look at what happened last year during summer two thousand and twelve powered breakages in talk the amount of cotton ball the cost of energy in tokyo alone rose by about eight point five percent and the figures that have been created recently by the it's a tutor of the energy economics of japan estimate that as much as around four hundred twenty thousand jobs could be cut if japan was to phase out all its nuclear energy. now the people of the falkland islands are holding

a two day referendum on whether to remain a british overseas territory ukase hoping for international backing in its dispute over the islands with argentina so the majority say yes but one is are as opposes the polls saying it has no validity but a champagne george galloway agrees saying the u.k.'s claims are rooted in its colonial past these are settlers the majority of them were not born on the falklands they have been sent there by the british to establish a colonial claim and the days of that belong in the eighteenth maybe even mid nineteenth centuries not in the twenty first so i'm afraid the sovereignty does not lie with the people of the falkland islands because most of them are british and british cannot dictate what happens tens of thousands of kilometers away in the south atlantic those days are long gone but britain beating its chest in the echo

of its former imperial past just simply refuses to do it and that's unacceptable i didn't danger's our interests in latin america which is one of the few parts of the globe that is economically thrusting ahead and we are prejudicing fatally our interests and our reputation in latin america by continuing to attempt to hold on to this appendage of british colonial rule. or add more stories few on our website in the u.k. human trafficking is a shocking numbers government appears to be turning a blind eye to the problem head to r.t. dot com for the full story that. any natural disaster prevent brokers from getting into work in new york city stock trading will continue that's on the ambitious contingency of placing traders with computers more details at our website. theatre

ballet dancers facing up to twelve years in prison for masterminding an attack on his boss pavel dmitrichenko is in custody along with two others involved in the assault charge with inflicting grievous bodily harm with the artistic director of the bolshoi ballet's sergei filin was nearly blinded after having acid splashed in his face in moscow in january he's now in the getting extensive treatment in germany and the pretrial hearing earlier this week the meter chunk admitted he did order the assault but he didn't intend it to be an acid attack thought he'd had a number of disagreements with his boss was girlfriend ballerina when she complained about being rejected for some leading roles entertainment reporter martin andrews told my colleague mattress or about the ugliest side of the artistic world. in the front of the if you see a beautiful production but really the drama backstage is i think it's everyday life

in a production house and that's what it is it's a factory from from the problems with the understudies from the problems because thing from the problems of of management who were dancers they were bitter about their faded career it's not an easy world to be in obviously the the rivalries between companies with a mosque and with the mets in the skull and they all want to be at the top of their game and tensions are always high in fraud and this is the first time we've had these sort of things happen right well this is certainly a very severe there but other kind of scandals well there is this it's called drama for a reason if a year ago stravinsky's rite of spring was postponed and in fact one of the dances that. she was actually said that she was threatened by various people and she she actually went over to canada in fear of her life in fear of that it would escalate beast and she was between the theatrical ballet world would escalate into violence and obviously as we see with the result. that happened in january it happens and

this may reduce it down to a level of a cliche but we have this blockbuster movie black swan that cloud that's absolutely what it's like with the black swan film the thing portman it really highlights the you know the extremities and the tensions and especially with the with the management with the hiring in the firing it's everyday life and it's sometimes it can seem like a wonderful place to work but it they reality is somewhat different. well still ahead for you this. isn't a new generation of communist party leaders has opens its national symbols congress in beijing flexing its military muscles in the back of the cage of washington. also ahead sobering thoughts on bad tax campaigners in the u.k. according to constant rises warning it's in the future of hundreds of pubs at risk pools are not off the right.

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from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. syrian rebels have released twenty one un peacekeepers after holding them captive for three days in the golan heights filipino observers were transported to jordan instead of being handed over to a u.n. team there's artie's poor slayer now reports the hostage crisis highlights concerns over radical elements in the syrian opposition groups who could be benefiting from western and arab states support. the peacekeepers crossed into jordan on saturday afternoon after having been captured back on wednesday the rebels themselves moved the hostages off to a u.n. team inside syria was prevented from doing so because of heavy fire slicer in the

area now the un secretary general ban ki moon has welcomed their release but he has said that all sides in the conflict must respect the united nations impartiality what we do know is that the peacekeepers were held in the village of jamila which is about ten kilometers north of jordan by a group calling itself the martyrs brigade it is important to point out that those who were unarmed they were initially taken hostage as human shields and that is according to the initial statement that was made by the rebel faction that captured them the rebels demanded that syrian government forces pull back from a nearby village and clearly stated that they were holding the u.n. team to ensure that the rebels wouldn't be shelled by government forces it was only off to the united nations international officials the heads of the syrian opposition as well as the free syrian army condemned the hostage taking that the rebel faction backtracked on that statements and said that the peacekeepers were so-called gets they also at that stage dropped all preconditions for they release

what this does do is that it highlights the fact that the opposition is becoming increasingly radicalized the armed rebel force consists of numerous groups like the ones that took the syria to hostage and what we see is that these groups are not coordinated and they don't only answer to a central rebel political and military command in this case clearly the rebel chiefs had not been warned about this hostage taking in advance and they only intervened after the hostages were taken it is an unprecedented incident it is the first time that u.n. workers have been taken hostage inside syria it is also stoking fears that foreign countries which are supporting the rebels are in fact supporting people. could turn against him as we saw in this case and there are also growing fears that weapons being smuggled to the rebels from abroad could be turned against the united nations or anyone else all of this coming as the united states and its allies are thinking

of support to the opposition which is demanding that the west stop openly arming them turkey in the gulf states already allegedly arming the rebels and have been doing so for the past two years of the conflict or for the hostage crisis western powers and allies in the arab world have been beefing up the syrian opposition's efforts in the fight to oust president assad league ministers have allowed member states to. biters when other countries have agreed to send non-lethal aid and finance the rebels. told my colleague bill dog about the consequences that the boost in support is having on the ground and we do know where they get their arms from at least there has been plenty of information to deduce that from we do know that saudi arabia as well as qatar as well as turkey libya and the united states have all offered some sort of aid financial or military in one way or another to this syrian rebels we don't know exactly how much has been shipped to these countries.